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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and read more
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Worthy books
Are not companions--they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual read more
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
A man of one book.
[Lat., Homo unius libri.]
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
A book is the only immortality.
A book is the only immortality.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
